Improvement in lubricators for picker-spindles



W. TAYLOR.-

v Lubricators for Picker-Spindles. [QC-158,189. Patented Dec.29,i874.

v Nifmwsses v UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

WILLIAM TAYLOR, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LUBRICATORS FOR PlCKER-SPINDLES.

Specification forming palt of Letters Patent No. 158,] 89, datedDecember 29, 1874; application filed October 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and usefulImproved Lubricator for Picker Rods or Spindles for Looms, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention relates to the lubrication of picker-spindles for looms.The peculiarity consists in making the picker-spindle hollow, with oneor more openings to the exterior sliding surface, said openings beingprovided with some absorbing material, like sponge or loose fibrousmatter, which will serve to draw the oil with which the spindle isfilled to its outer surface, and thus bring it in contact with thetriction-surface. The movement of the picker on the spindle will serveto distribute the oil evenly on the friction-surface.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of my invention as applied to apicker-spindle of a loom. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section of the same. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the same.

Let A represent the plate, to which the picker-spindle H is attached bystuds B and E. As usual on looms the boss E is provided with aset-screw, F, which serves to fasten the spindle H in place, as shown inFig. 3. The spindle H is provided with the usual bufl'ers (l. D is apicker, made in any approved form, and slides on the spindle H in theusual manner. The spindleH is made hollow, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4,and is to be filled with oil. L is a screw-plug, which may be removedwhen it is desirable to fill the spindle H with oil. At K an opening ismade from the interior of the spindle to the exterior. This opening isfilled with sponge or some similar fibrous material having a capillarynature. This material at K extends into the interior of the spindle H,as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so that the oil is always in contact with it.

The absorbing material at K, being always fully saturated with oil, andprojecting somewhat above the surface of the spindle, delivers some ofthe oil to the picker D at each passage, the action of the picker being,as it comes into contact with the saturated material at K, to compressit, and thus force out some of the oil. This oil, being forced out ofthe absorbent at K onto the interior surface of the picker, iscarried'by the picker and distributed over the entire surface of thespindle, thus thoroughly lubricating it.

I claim as my invention-' In, a loom, the oilholding picker rod orspindle, provided with the absorbent K, in combination with the pickerD, all operating together substantially as described, and for thepurpose set forth.

WILLIAM TAYLOR. Witnesses:

WM. E. BRIGHT, SAME. B. OAPEN.

